Well, this is the time of year that teachers show up for their end-of-the-school-year tune-up. And I must say I am impressed. When you think about it, teachers have to control and perform all day for an unruly, immature crowd prone to heckling. Talk about performance anxiety and fatigue. One of my teachers has got … Continue reading Teachers are a Source of Forced Inspiration
I just published an article on effects of massage on migraine patients on the Bellevue Massage Therapy blog.I interviewed Stephen D. Silberstein of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is a past President of the American Headache Society.
Massage therapists often hear from clients that chocolate or caffeine drinks trigger headaches. When you work with people seeking relief from pain, these common trigger patterns tend to emerge – certain foods or bright lights, loud noises, etc. Over the past 15 years of doing massages, I’ve observed some interesting developments on the list of … Continue reading Triggers and Patterns and Bears, Oh My!
My fingers were trying to get these medial scalenes to show some sign of softness and life. Rebar. These scalenes felt like rebar. You know, that metal stuff they put in concrete to stabilize it. Rusty rebar. My neck always hurts there, my client said. Would you like to get rid of it? I replied. … Continue reading Accidents Happen
I’m not one to whine – except in this space – and I have been floundering in computer virus hell for nearly a month. Cesar, the techie not the general, finally brought my computer back today and after some standard confusion, I’m at the keyboard again. Which is to say I’m at a crossroads. I’d … Continue reading Virusly Yours
Doing a massage the other day on a lady who works as an emergency room nurse at a local hospital, I ran into some solid granite. “I don’t like chiropractors,” she said. Ok. Why? “We see people in the emergency room all the time. The chiropractor adjusted them and they come in later in pain … Continue reading Crunch Time
Well, it’s been kind of tense around my house lately, largely because my honey has spent the last three months on the jury for a creepy serial killer accused of five murders. I must say, I ran out of jokes and quick subject changes when it all came down Tuesday with the death sentence. Not … Continue reading Buckets O’ Stress
Okay, so no whining or anything this time, because I have been pretty busy lately. Busy enough I’m starting to get a little silly. So Saturday I did like 500 massages in 10 hours and I left the I-Pod in the car and had to play my CD player, antique that it is, all day … Continue reading Massage Music We’d Enjoy Hearing Again, Again, and Again….
Saturday one of my clients was asking about aromatherapy, and I gave her a few pointers for home use and recommended an aromatherapy reference book I thumbed through at Barnes & Noble. “Wow, you really have a lot of knowledge about this,” my client said. I love those ego boosting compliments. It’s a great part … Continue reading The Coffee Joint
Sometimes you get the nicest compliments from clients when they don’t say a word. So it was Friday when a client came in after a hell week at work, plopped on the table and pointed at the right side of his neck. A few minutes after getting his lymph flowing and addressing the rebar in … Continue reading The Best Compliment